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Chilean government invests in salmon cluster
The Chilean economic development agency, CORFO, has allocated funds to the salmon cluster in order to channel public and private efforts to strengthen and enlarge the cluster.
Relationships Between Universities and SMEs in Emerging High Technology Industries
It is not a new concept that the highly innovative and entrepreneurial SME sector can make important contributions to the commercialisation of emerging technologies. Moreover, universities have become a vital link in this chain. Therefore it is of paramount importance that the relationships between SMEs and universities are understood.
"Pour un écosysteme de la croissance"
Christian Blanc, deputy of the Yvelines parliament (France) has published the results of a study for a report to the Prime Minister on competitiveness in France and proposes an action plan to reveal the poles of competitiveness: "Pour un écosysteme de la croissance". The central objective is to build an autonomous growth engine pulled by innovation.
Files
- Timo Juntunen, Lyon 2006: Building Cluster in Education - Role of universities
- G2 T.pdf
- Rauli Sorvari, Lyon 2006: EduCluster in Central Finland.
- H2 Sorvari l.pdf
- Karen Markides - New VINNOVA Perspective, Ottawa 2004
- KMarkides-Vinnovaresearchprogram.pdf
- René Durocher - Innovation contribution by Canadian Research Chair Program, Ottawa 2004
- RDurocher-CanResearchChairs.pdf
Links
- Cluster del Conocimiento/Knowledge centre in the Basque Country
- This Knowledge Cluster was formed with the purpose of promoting, stimulating and supporting the development and application of management knowledge. The main objective of the Cluster is to improve competitiveness of the business and institutional community of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country. This site is available in Basque, Spanish and English.
www.clusterconocimiento.com/Default.aspx?lang=en-GB - Cluster Hubs: Putting Learning in Context
- Article by Stuart A. Rosenfeldt and Cynthia D. Liston .
www.rtsinc.org/new_web/pubs2/Cluster_Hubs.pdf - Council on Competitiveness (USA)
- A forum set up by two-dozen industrial, university and labour leaders with the intention of elevating national competitveness to the forefront of national consciousness.
www.compete.org/about_us/ - Ecological Construction Cluster Lower Austria
- The Ökobau cluster Lower Austria
the central turntable for all enterprises, F&E mechanisms as well as qualification is mechanisms, which concern themselves with the topics energy efficiency, housing comfort, interior climate and existing building reorganization.
www.oekobaucluster.at - Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies
- Ecis is a research institute at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven with a social sciences perspective on innovation and technology.
fp.tm.tue.nl/ecis/ - Envirolink Northwest Ltd
- Envirolink Northwest exists to promote, strengthen and support the environmental technologies and services sector in England's Northwest. Three environmental technology and services (ETS)companies and the largest university in the region are working with three major companies from each of the following sectors chemicals, food and paper manufacturing to help them to identify alternative uses for thier unavoidable waste streams.
http://www.envirolinknorthwest.co.uk/ - Haas School of Business
- University of California Berkeley.
www.haas.berkeley.edu/ - Hubert H Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (University of Minnesota)
- The institute examines public issues and shaping public policies at local, state, national and international levels and for providing leadership and management expertise to public and nonprofit organisations.
www.hhh.umn.edu/research/index.html - HVAC CLUSTER, Slovene heating, ventilation and air conditioning
- Development of the complete, new and Modern HVAC System with all products and components, specially with new technical solutions. <br> <br>
Podjetja, vključena v Grozd KGH z izvajanjem skupnih projektov ustvarjajo močno skupino, katere člani bodo skupaj ali posamično lahko konkurirali za velike projekte tako doma, kot v tujini.
www.hvac-cluster.com/ - INCAE Business School
- INCAE is devoted to actively promoting the comprehensive development of the countries it serves and in order to contribute to the fulfillment of this mission, INCAE's Research Centers engage in the analysis of issues highly meaningful to the business community and the creation of proposals conducive to the sustainable development of Latin American countries.
http://www.incae.ac.cr/EN/centroinves/ - Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University
- Institute for Stategy and Competitiveness led by Michael E Porter studies competition and its implications on company strategy.
http://www.isc.hbs.edu/ - it.saarland
- The Saarland positions itself with its technologies and solutions in the international competition. The cluster it.saarland connects the authority of enterprises, research institutes and education organizations among themselves. A goal is it to manufacture contacts to initialize projects and to bundle the know-how for customers and solutions: world-wide and in the region.
The cluster it.saarland is arranged according to topic
www.it.saarland.de - Kista Science City
- Kista Science City’s position in the fields of telecommunication systems and wireless systems in particular is unique. Few sites in the world can display the same breadth throughout commerce and industry along the entire length of the wireless systems value chain.
www.kista.com/ - Moravian Silesian Engineering Cluster
- Only available in Chechen
www.msskova.cz/ - Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare (MATCH)
- MATCH is a research collaboration between five leading UK universities in healthcare technology assessment, and a cohort of industrial partners. It is recognised and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as a centre of excellence in its field, having been awarded the status of Innovative Manufacturing Research centre (IMRC).
www.match.ac.uk - New Tools for Life
- Hälsans nya verktyg is a regional initiative for growth with its core in Östergötland, Sweden. The focus is on health and health related business. Its mission is to make the region of Östergötland a prime mover in the development of individually adapated solutions for best possible health.
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The main motives are a great and growing market potential and a suitable regional profile with roots in the academic society, the business environment and public organisations. Primarily focused product areas are sports, personal health, distributed care and personal care.
The primary objective is to generate growth in the region through a successive introduction of the new products on the great and growing international market.
www.halsansnyaverktyg.se/?sid=768&parent=749 - Okanagan Partnership
- The Okanagan Sustainable Prosperity Strategy is a bottom-up, collaborative strategy to ensuring that the Okanagan region - from Similikameen to Enderby in the north to Osoyoos in the south - remains economically vital while preserving a high quality of life that has inspired many to move to the region and continues to retain those who live here. This broad-based regional initiative is the first of its kind in the Okanagan. Until now, communities have largely looked within their own boundaries for solutions to economic and quality of life challenges they face.
www.okanaganpartnership.ca/ - Oresund Science Region
- Øresund Science Region is a trans-national initiative between Denmark and Sweden that
serves to strengthen one of the most important assets of the Øresund Region: The unparalleled
presence of cutting-edge technologies and highly skilled human resources, which is the result of
a specialised research community and a growing number of knowledge-based, market leading
companies.
www.oresundscienceregion.org/sw6563.asp - Uppsala BIO
- The region of Uppsala, located 20 minutes north of Stockholm-Arlanda international airport, is today a buoyant center of biotechnology. In this comparatively small area, we find about one fourth of Sweden’s biotech sector in the shape of universities, industry and national agencies.
Uppsala has a long tradition of working with biotechnology, especially tools and methods for research and development in the life sciences. Pioneering core technologies such as ultracentrifugation, electrophoresis, gel filtration and affinity chromatography were invented by Uppsala scientists. Many of these developments have spun off into successful products sold the world over by Uppsala-based companies.
www.uppsalabio.com
